According to MSNBC (and O.J. Simpson's ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves) Simpson played a more than hypothetical role in the packaging of his ill-fated confessional, "If I Did It."

"O.J. read the book, his book, several times. I made every change he asked for, and he signed off on it," Fenjves, a Hollywood screenwriter told Reuters on Thursday.

"The whole book, the whole idea for a book, originated with O.J. Simpson and a couple of his handlers," he said.

Wait, so Simpson masterminded the idea of a writing a hypothetical confession for a violent double-homicide set in the mid-1990's that culminated in the deaths of his wife and her then-lover, Ron Goldman?

Writers today…where do they get their ideas?